ECDL98 - Call for Participation and Preliminary Programme
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_____________________________________________________________________________ Call for Participation and Preliminary Programme for the Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries European European IEEE ICS-FORTH University of Union Research Computer Crete Consortium for Society Informatics and Mathematics 19 - 23 September, 1998 Knossos Royal Village, Heraklion, Crete, Greece Web Page: http://www.csi.forth.gr/2EuroDL E-mail: ecdl@cc.uch.gr _____________________________________________________________________________ We cordially invite you to join us at the Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries, to be held at Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 19-23. The conference opening session will take place at 9.00a.m. on Monday the 21th of September 1998 and the final session will take place on Wednesday afternoon, the 23th of September 1998. The technical talks are complemented by internationally renowned experts' invited presentations and special sessions, panel discussions, as well as poster and demonstration sessions. The 7th DELOS Workshop on Electronic Commerce will be held jointly with the Second European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology. Tutorials will be organized on the 19th and 20th of September 1998. Please note that early registration deadline is July 31, 1998. A limited number of fellowships for the Conference and also for Tutorials are available. For more information, including registration and fellowship application forms, please consult the appropriate sections of our conference web pages. Details concerning the Conference Programme can be found at the conference web page, under the 'Conference Programme' section, http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/programme.html For specific information please consult the appropriate sections of the conference web pages: Paper Sessions - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/accpapers.html Panel Sessions - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/panels.html Posters - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/posters.html Demos - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/demos.html Tutorials - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/tutorials.html Invited Speakers - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/speakers.html Special Sessions - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/sessions.html 7th DELOS Workshop on Electronic Commerce - http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/Delos-7.html Please find attached the Preliminary Conference Programme as well as information on Tutorials and Paper Sessions, including titles and authors. ______________________________________________________________________________ Tutorials http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/tutorials.html ______________________________________________________________________________ SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 Full Day Tutorials Visual Information Systems by Babu M. Mehtre Multimedia Information Retrieval, categorisation, and filtering by Pasquale Savino and Fabrizio Sebastiani Half Day Tutorials Designing Content for the Web of Tomorrow World Wide Web Consortium sponsored Tutorial by Bert Bos Secure Communication and Payments over the Internet by Amir Herzberg SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 Full Day Tutorials Internet Technologies for the Digital Library by Larry Masinter Thesauri for knowledge-based assistance in searching digital libraries by Dagobert Soergel Metadata for Networked Resources by Renato Iannella, Carl Lagoze and Stuart Weibel ______________________________________________________________________________ Preliminary Conference Programme [* implies pending final confirmation] http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/programme.html ______________________________________________________________________________ MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 8:30 - 9:15 Opening Ceremony C. Nikolaou, ECDL98 Programme Chair G. Arsenis, Minister of Education and Religious Affairs * N. Adam, Digital Libraries Technical Committee, IEEE Computer Society C. Spiraki, Rector, University of Crete E. Economou, Chairman FORTH * S. Orphanoudakis, Vice President ERCIM, Director ICS-FORTH 9:15 - 10:30 Plenary Session A Invited Speaker: D. Ferguson, Chief Architect, Director, Application Development Division, IBM, and IBM Academy, USA 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 - 12:30 Parallel Session B PS B1 - DELOS Workshop PS B2 - Special Session Organizer: Ann Okerson PS B3 - Paper Session: Architectures for DLs PS B4 - Paper Session: Image DLs 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 - 16:30 Plenary Session C Invited Speakers: J. O'Donnell, Professor of classical studies, Vice Provost for Computing, University of Pennsylvania, USA A. Friedlander CNRI, Editor of the D-Lib Magazine W. Arms CNRI, Publisher of the D-Lib Magazine 16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break 16:45 - 18:40 Parallel Session D PS D1 - DELOS Workshop PS D2 - Paper Session: Multilinguality PS D3 - Paper Session: DL Technologies for Libraries PS D4 - Paper Session: Case Studies I - Invited Speaker Y. Ioannidis, Professor, University of Athens ______________________________________________________________________________ TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 8:30 - 10:30 Plenary Session E Invited Speakers M. Maybury, Advanced Information Systems Center The MITRE Corporation E. Gelenbe, Nello L. Teer Jr. Professor and Chair of Electrical and Computer Engineering Duke University, USA 10:30 - 10:45 Coffee Break 10:45 - 12:30 Parallel Session F PS F1 - DELOS Workshop PS F2 - Special Session Organizer: D. Law PS F3 - Paper Session: Case Studies II - Invited Speaker E. Neuhold, R. Ferber, GMD-IPSI PS F4 - Panel Session DL Technology for Health Care Coordinator: S. Orfanoudakis - Paper Session: Navigation and DLs 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 - 15:15 Plenary Session G Keynote Speaker: G. Papandreou, Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs, Greece 15:15 - 16:30 Plenary Session H Invited Speaker: V. Jongeneel, Director, Swiss Institute for Bioinformatics Switzerland 16:30 - 16:45 Coffee Break 16:45 - 17:45 Parallel Session I PS I1 - Panel Session Interaction Design in Digital Libraries Coordinator: C. Stephanidis PS I2 - Panel Session Metadata and content-based approaches to resource discovery Coordinator: T. Baker and J. Klavan PS I3 - Paper Session: IR for DLs 17:45 - 19:10 Parallel Session J PS J1 - DELOS Workshop PS J2 - Paper Session: Querying in DLs PS J3 - Paper Session: Human Computer Interaction for DLs ______________________________________________________________________________ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 8:15 - 10:45 Posters and Demos 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee Break 11:00 - 12:30 Parallel Session K PS K1 - DELOS Workshop PS K2 - Paper Session: Natural Language Processing for DLs PS K3 - Panel Session Architectures and services for cultural heritage information Coordinator: P. Constantopoulos PS K4 - Panel Session Federated scientific data repositories for the environment towards global scalable management of environmental information: How useful will they be? What is their potential impact? Shall we save the environment? Coordinator: C. Houstis 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break 14:00 - 15:15 Plenary Session L Panel Session EU and US funding policies for Digital Libraries Coordinator: C. Nikolaou 15:30 - 16:45 Plenary Session M Panel Session Findings of the ESPRIT NSF Working Group on Digital Libraries Coordinator: C. Peters 16:45 - 17:00 Closing Remarks Serge Abiteboul, ECDL99 Programme Chair ______________________________________________________________________________ Paper Sessions http://www.ics.forth.gr/2EuroDL/highlights/accpapers.html ______________________________________________________________________________ Architectures for Digital Libraries [Parallel Session B3, Monday 21, 10:45 - 12:30] Session Chair: S. Haridi, Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Sweden Flexible and Extensible Digital Object and Repository Architecture (FEDORA) Sandra Payette, Carl Lagoze Cornell University, USA The Alexandria Digital Library Architecture James Frew, Michael Freeston, Nathan Freitas, Linda Hill, Greg Janee, Kevin Lovette, Robert Nideffer, Terence Smith, Qi Zheng University of California, Santa Barbara, USA A Framework for the Encapsulation of Value-Added Services in Digital Objects Manolis Marazakis, Dimitris Papadakis, Stavros A. Papadakis University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece A Management Architecture for Measuring and Monitoring the Behavior of Digital Libraries Sarantos Kapidakis, ICS-FORTH, Greece, Sotirios Terzis, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Ireland, Jakka Sairamesh, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Building HyperNavigation Wrappers for Publisher Web-Sites Lukas C. Faulstich, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, Myra Spiliopoulou, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany ______________________________________________________________________________ Image Digital Libraries [Parallel Session B4, Monday 21, 10:45 - 12:30] Session Chair: S. Abiteboul, INRIA, France Combining Color and Spatial Information for Content-based Image Retrieval Ramin Zabih, Jing Huang Cornell University, USA The Application of Metadata Standards to Video Indexing Jane Hunter University of Queensland, Australia Search and Progressive Image Retrieval from Distributed Image/Video Databases: the SPIRE project Vittorio Castelli, Lawrence D. Bergman, Chung-Sheng Li, John R. Smith IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Improving the Spatial-Temporal Clue Based Segmentation by the use of Rhythm Walid Mahdi, Liming Chen, Dominique Fontaine Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, France ______________________________________________________________________________ Multilinguality [Parallel Session D2, Monday 21, 16:45 - 18:40] Session Chair: C. Peters, IEI-CNR, Italy Multilingual Information Retrieval Based on Document Alignment Techniques Martin Braschler, Eurospider Information Technology AG, Switzerland, Peter Schauble, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Experimental Studies on an Applet-based Document Viewer for Multilingual WWW Documents - Functional Extension of and Lessons Learned from Multilingual HTML Shigeo Sugimoto, Myriam Dartois, Jun Ohta, Shigetaka Nakao, Tetsuo Sakaguchi, Koichi Tabata, University of Library and Information Science, Japan, Akira Maeda, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan SIS - TMS A Thesaurus Management System for Distributed Digital Collections Martin Doerr, Irini Fountoulaki ICS-FORTH, Greece Parallel Text Alignment Charles B. Owen, Michigan State University, USA James Ford, Fillia Makedon, Tilmann Steinberg, Dartmouth College, USA ______________________________________________________________________________ DL Technologies for Libraries [Parallel Session D3, Monday 21, 16:45 - 18:40] Session Chair: I. Solvberg, University of Science and Technology, Norway An Analysis of Usage of a Digital Library Steve Jones, Sally Jo Cunningham, Rodger McNab University of Waikato, New Zealand ILLUSTRATED BOOK STUDY: Digital Conversion Requirements of Printed Illustrations Anne R. Kenney, Cornell University, USA, Louis H. Sharpe II, Picture Elements, Inc., USA, Barbara Berger, Cornell University, USA Structuring Facilities in Digital Libraries Peter J. Nuernberg, Aarhus University, Germany Uffe K. Wiil, Aalborg University, Germany John J. Leggett, Texas A&M University, USA E-Referencer: A Prototype Expert System Web Interface to Online Catalogs Christopher Khoo, Soon-Kah Liew, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Danny C.C. Poo, Teck-Kang Toh, National University of Singapore, Singapore ______________________________________________________________________________ Case Studies I [Parallel Session D4, Monday 21, 16:45 - 18:40] Session Chair: C. Thanos, IEI-CNR, Italy Scientific Workflow Management Invited Speaker: Prof. Yiannis Ioannidis, University of Athens The Planetary Data System. A Case Study in the Development and Management of Meta-Data for a Scientific Digital Library J. Steven Hughes, Susan K. McMahon JPL, California Institute of Technology, USA Performing Arts Data Service - An Online Digital Resource Library Steve Malloch, Carola Boehm, Celia Duffy, Catherine Owen, Stephen Arnold, Tony Pearson University of Glasgow, UK ______________________________________________________________________________ Case Studies II [Parallel Session F3, Tuesday 22, 10:45 - 12:30] Session Chair: C. Houstis, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH, Greece Global Info Invited Speakers: Dr. Erich Neuhold and Dr. Reginald Ferber, GMD-IPSI Invited Paper [title to be announced shortly] Robin Wright Online Manager Cinemedia Invited Paper [title to be announced shortly] Richard Paterson Head of Information and Education Division, British Film Institute ______________________________________________________________________________ Navigation and DLs [Parallel Session F4, Tuesday 22, 11:45 - 12:25] Session Chair: C. Lagoze, Cornell University, USA Learning User Communities for Improving the Services of Information Providers Georgios Paliouras, Christos Papatheodorou, Vangelis Karkaletsis, Costantine Spyropoulos, Victoria Malaveta NCSR Demokritos, Greece Soft Navigation in Product Catalogs Markus Stolze IBM Research Division, Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland ______________________________________________________________________________ IR for DLs [Parallel Session I3, Tuesday 22, 16:45 - 17:45] Session chair: P. Schauble, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Mixing and Merging for Spoken Document Retrieval Mark Sanderson, University of Massachusetts, USA Fabio Crestani, University of Glasgow, UK An Integrated Approach to Semantic Evaluation and Content-Based Retrieval of Multimedia Documents A. Knoll, University of Bielefeld, C. Altenschmidt, J. Biskup, University of Dortmund, H.-M. Blüthgen, University of Technology RWTH Aachen, I. Glöckner, University of Bielefeld, S. Hartrumpf, H. Helbig, Fernuniversität Hagen, C. Henning, University of Technology RWTH Aachen, R. Lüling, B. Monien, University of Paderborn, T. Noll, University of Technology RWTH Aachen, N. Sensen, University of Paderborn, Germany Taiscealai: Information Retrieval from an Archive of Spoken Radio News A.F. Smeaton, School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University M. Morony, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University G. Quinn, School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University R. Scaife, School of Electronic Engineering, Dublin City University Ireland ______________________________________________________________________________ Querying in DLs [Parallel Session J2, Tuesday 22, 17:45 - 19:05] Session Chair: H.J. Schek, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Semantic Structuring and Visual Querying of Document Abstracts in Digital Libraries Andreas Becks, Stefan Sklorz, Lehrstuhl fur Informatik, RWTH Aachen, Germany, Christopher Tresp, LuFG Theoretische Informatik, RWTH Aachen, Germany Documentation, Cataloging and Query by Navigation: A Practical and Sound Approach F.J.M. Bosman, P.D. Bruza, Th.P. van der Weide, L.V.M. Weusten Signature File Methods for Semantic Query Caching Boris Chidlovskii, Xerox Research Centre Europe, France, Uwe M. Borghoff, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Introducing MIRA: a Retrieval Applications' Development Environment Jose M. Martinez, Jesus Bescos, Guillermo Cisneros Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain ______________________________________________________________________________ Human Computer Interaction for DLs [Parallel Session J3, Tuesday 22, 17:45 - 18:45] Session chair: C. Stephanidis, ICS-FORTH, Greece Interacting With IDL: The Adaptive Visual Interface M. F. Costabile, F. Esposito, G. Semeraro, N. Fanizzi, S. Ferilli Universita di Bari, Italy Evaluating a Visual Navigation System for a Digital Library Anton Leouski, James Allan Visualizing Document Classification: A Search Aid for the Digital Library Yew-Huey Liu, Paul Dantzig, and Martin Sachs IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA, Jim Corey, Mark Hinnebusch and Terry Sullivan Florida Center For Library Automation, USA, Marc Damashek and Jonathan Cohen U.S. Department of Defense, USA ______________________________________________________________________________ Natural Language Processing for DLs [Parallel Session K2, Wednesday 23, 11:00 - 12:20] Session Chair: S. Weibel, OCLC, USA A Linguistically Motivated Probabilistic Model of Information Retrieval Djoerd Hiemstra University of Twente, The Netherlands The C-value/NC-value method of Automatic Recognition for Multi-Word Terms Katerina Frantzi, Sophia Ananiadou, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK, Junichi Tsujii, University of Tokyo, Japan Comparing the Effect of Syntactic vs. Statistical Phrase Indexing Strategies for Dutch Wessel Kraaij, Institute of Applied Physics, TNO, The Netherlands, Renee Pohlmann, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Reduction of Expanded Search Terms for Fuzzy English-text Retrieval Manabu Ohta, University of Tokyo, Japan, Atsuhiro Takasu, Jun Adachi National Center for Science Information Systems, Japan